Show NONAGENARIAN OIL WELL BORER R H D 0 Bartlett Tells How He Drove Third Well in United States SALT LAKER WITH A HISTORY Fattier of hotel Put lut Into Oil Company Compan hen First t Started I 1 drove time the thIrd oU oil well vell put down downIn In the tho United States The speaker was a pleasant plessant little old gra gray haired man sitting In a bg cas easy chah placidly smoking hIs little old In tIme the o of the tho hotel Monday i And nd more than that I put lit In the thu Standard Oil 01 com company pan when It first started Everybody thought It amount to anythIng But everybody got tooled fooled they and the thu little 01 1 man wInked placidly The rho speaker was R D Bartlett 9 91 years cars old father o of Henry R B Bartlett manager or of the hotel of this cI city t That was a lon Ion time the War My Iy flint well was on Oil creek about 75 miles north or of burg I kicked It down w th a spring pole It was slow goIng but every everything everything thing cens slow In those days das arid and we mind It I 1 struck oil at feet Coa ow they thoy go down 2000 to feet The oil rock In that field played out outon outon on them later hater I understand I OIL AT 26 25 CENTS C TS A BARREL When tim tho war broko out you OU could buy oU oil around there for tor a barrel Thero was no storage no lam Im Immediate mediate market I SOt got up tIm tho first bIg storage tank I I lied had got It pat patented patented I built my tank up river put It In the tho water crater and amid heated It down to tho ho elt city and set lIet It up It was a barrel tank and ever eor since then thu tho oil mon men have been using m my tanks In those days wo we had bM to draw oft off the tho water In our wells now they shut It o off IT and get out only tIme tile oil RICH NEXT EXT I remember one Instance whore hore a couple of boys had been working at a aWell 0 Well untIl the they got discouraged They called n a council or of nIl all Interested and It was as decided to abandon the tho well That night at midnIght the tho place startled by a great roar and It a rush and tho boys bos woke up rich well burst out that night giving oft off barrels a day dayI I was born In York near neur Al AI Albany bany ban I followed m my three boys bos out West and have lived In Salt Lake 20 years now J I wont Into county coun count t ty near when there was nothing but mone money no anythIng but I like thIs western country and thInk Ill just fool some somo of my friends and amid live to bo be a hundred I 1 may beat that Im going to tr try anyway and lie be agaIn fell feli to away at lila hIs comforting old ol pIpe |